{"id":353,"date":"2011-09-20T12:50:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T16:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watkinson.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=344"},"modified":"2011-09-20T12:50:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T16:50:55","slug":"audubon-wall-stage-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2011\/09\/20\/audubon-wall-stage-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Audubon wall, stage II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_1939.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-346\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_1939-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Today we added the final design element to the wall behind the Audubon case.\u00a0 The decorative border (and the bird) came from a source contemporary with Audubon&#8211;a book of specimens that a printer would show a client who was looking to publish a book, like sales samples, which we found in the wonderful D. B. Updike collection on printing at the Providence Public Library:<\/p>\n<p><em>Specimen of Printing Types and Ornaments, from the Type and Stereotype Foundry  of William Hagar and Co.<\/em> (New York: [s.n.], 1841).<\/p>\n<p>Shown here is Melissa, the installer from the sign company (ArtFX).<\/p>\n<p>My fabulous designer, Arley-Rose Torsone, took this little bitty ornament and the bird (which is the size of a quarter), did her magic, and produced a design that the sign company then fabricated into vinyl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_1942.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-347\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_1942-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>It really pops&#8211;the text has a much more finished look, and the frame draws the eye to it.<\/p>\n<p>Now we just have to get the floor finished, and we&#8217;ll be ready to go!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_1943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-348\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_1943-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we added the final design element to the wall behind the Audubon case.\u00a0 The decorative border (and the bird) came from a source contemporary with Audubon&#8211;a book of specimens that a printer would show a client who was looking to publish a book, like sales samples, which we found in the wonderful D. B. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}